Focus on iThemba has four key focus areas; iThemba Schools provide quality Foundation Phase Education, iThemba Homes provide quality foster care homes for vulnerable children, iThemba Campus protects our rich flora and fauna on our 48 acre estate & iThemba Community works with creches in the Embo Valley to become sustainable businesses. Focus on iThemba is an accredited non-profit, public benefit organisation (18a) restoring hope in people's lives. In 2003, visionary leader Danie van den Heever, a retired Durban businessman, established a haven for hope near Hillcrest in KwaZulu-Natal. Realising the need for positive action he drove the process to form an inspirational organisation entitled ‘Focus on iThemba', the isiZulu word for ‘hope'.